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doesn't anyone find it strange that someone who was pretty much totally deaf can suddenly listen to a song and appreciate it? I'd think it would just sound like a confused racket and she would have no comprehension of it at all in that first time! I think it's weird she enjoyed it... does anyone know more about the subject of our natural understanding of sounds? is it innate or do we learn it? I think to some degree we learn it, because in different cultures, although music is always present, it is not always pleasing interculturally.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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